Longtail – A Sweet Cookies and Cream Cheese Ball Rat

If you are looking for party food that might at first gross out your squeamish guests, but tastes so yummy they wont be able to resist, this is the recipe for you. A yummy dough made from Oreo Cookies and Philadelphia Cream Cheese creates Longtail’s body, legs and ears. His long body is rolled in crushed cookies which mimics his hair. Chocolate chips become eyes and a simple cream cheese frosting is piped on to create his tail, nose and toes. Kid’s will love helping you create this adorable yet disgusting creature and will have even more fun eating it.

If you don’t have any experience piping frosting you can substitute candy pieces for the tail, nose and toes. You could use strawberry Tootsie Rolls to create these parts. Just soften the candy in your warm hand and cut and mold into the desired shape. You can also put them in the microwave on defrost for 5 seconds. Just be careful as the candy may be very hot when you remove it from the oven.

Pour cookies into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until the cookies are fine crumbs. Remove 2/3 cup crumbs and set aside. Add 7 ounces cream cheese to the food processor and pulse until mixture is completely combined, scraping bowl as needed.

Reserve about 3 tablespoons of the cookie/cream cheese dough for Longtail’s legs and ears. Pour the remaining dough onto a piece of plastic wrap. Use the plastic wrap to help you form the dough into a long oval. Unwrap.

Pour reserved cookie crumbs into a long shallow container. Roll dough oval into crumbs, shaping the body as you go. Place on a serving platter.

Press the two chocolate chips onto either side of Longtail’s face. Pinch off small amounts of the reserved dough and roll into 2 short skinny front legs and two longer wider back legs. Attach to body. Pinch off two small balls of dough and flatten them into ears. Attach to head.

Combine the remaining 1 ounce of cream cheese with the powdered sugar and one very small drop of pink food coloring. Stir until well combined.

Pipe a long tail onto the back of Longtail’s body. Start by setting the decorating tip at Longtail’s back end. Squeeze and as the frosting comes out of the tip, pull out and around the body tapering off as you go.

Pipe on a nose and pipe some pink onto each ear. Remove the #12 decorating tip and replace it with a #3 tip. Pipe on Longtails’ toes. Keep refrigerated for up to a week. Bring to room temperature before serving.

Comments

I just slice it and eat it as it has a crumb like crust. You could make cat shaped fried tortilla chips and serve them on the side. Then your guests could scoop out the rat with a cat! That would be pretty funny.

What a fun idea! I would use a cat shaped cookie cutter to cut out flour tortilla, then I'd fry them and sprinkle on some cinnamon sugar. You could even add some cocoa powder to add some dark color to your cats. Have fun. I'd love to share a photo if you make them!

I use this base to make oreo truffles (just roll them into balls and dip in chocolate) but this is so much easier and Halloween-appropriate. I had a tough time sticking the ears to the head so i just connected them to each other and they kind of sit on top of the head. I had to add a splash of milk to the pink frosting to be able to pipe it. Thanks so much for this cute idea! Everyone at my work Halloween party loves it!

I'm so happy to hear that you and your coworkers loved your rat. I realize looking at the picture of the ingredients that I used 1/3 less fat Cream Cheese and recently I discovered that it is more wet than regular. I was making a cheesecake and used it instead and it really changed the recipe. So, adding some milk to the pink frosting was a good idea. If you used regular cream cheese, it was probably a bit thicker. Glad it all worked in the end. If you snapped any pictures, I'd love to see them. Send them to [email protected]

Crush the entire 18 ounce package of Oreo Cookies then remove 2/3 cup crumbs and set aside. That 2/3 of a cup of crumbs will be used to coat the cheese ball. The rest will get mixed with the cream cheese.

About how big is this rat? I’m trying to decide what size serving platter I need. I’m thinking about bringing it to our office party this year since my home was most recently invaded by rats. However, I want to change it up a bit and buy a plastic rat trap, clean it thoroughly, make it look like the rat got caught, and use red jell icing for fake blood.

Also, any other ideas about what to serve with it except graham crackers or tortilla chips?

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